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SUNDAY 12 APRIL

The osprey

The UK's oldest breeding pair of ospreys have produced a record-breaking 53rd egg in time for Easter, at a nature reserve in Perthshire.

Marek Harcar

A strategy is needed to deal with the problem of violent offenders coming to Scotland from abroad, according to the Scottish Conservatives.

police accident sign

A 16-year-old girl who died after a head-on crash between two cars on the A935 in Angus has been named by police.

SATURDAY 11 APRIL

Wrecked rotor-head winched ashore

Investigators call for improved safety systems on helicopters like the one that crashed in the North Sea, killing 16 people.

Wrecked rotor-head winched ashore

Union leaders call for North Sea Super Puma helicopters to be grounded after 16 people were killed in an offshore crash.

Police accident sign

A 16-year-old girl who died after a head-on crash between two cars on the A935 in Angus has been named by police.

FRIDAY 10 APRIL

Archaeological dig

Archaeologists have discovered the earliest evidence of human beings ever found in Scotland in a ploughed field near Biggar.

Helicopter crash

An initial report into the North Sea helicopter crash which killed 16 people has found that the aircraft suffered a "catastrophic failure".

Airplane

Almost a quarter of a million people are expected to travel from Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen airports over the bank holiday weekend.

THURSDAY 9 APRIL

JK Rowling

JK Rowling has stood down as patron of the Multiple Sclerosis Society Scotland claiming that the charity is being split by an internal row.

Holly Fallon and her mother Diane

The bodies of a woman and a young girl, believed to be that of missing Diane Fallon and her daughter Holly, 10, have been found in Ayrshire.

Call centre

More than 500 call centre jobs could be lost in the UK after mobile phone giant T-Mobile announced plans to move work to the Philippines.

WEDNESDAY 8 APRIL

Marek Harcar

A 33-year-old man has been jailed for at least 25 years after being found guilty of raping and murdering Moira Jones in a Glasgow park.

Oliver

An ageing and partially deaf springer spaniel has survived five weeks and two days lost on Ben Fhionnlaidh near Glen Etive.

Queens Park

The brutal murder of Moira Jones shocked people across Scotland, but perhaps none more so than those who used the park where she died.

TUESDAY 7 APRIL

RBS logo

The Royal Bank of Scotland is to shed up to 9,000 more jobs in its back office operations with half of them being cut across the UK.

Edinburgh Royal Infirmary

A man dies and six emergency service crew are treated in hospital following a decontamination incident on the outskirts of Edinburgh.

Small dog

One of the smallest dogs in the UK is living in West Dunbartonshire, but at 8in long tiny Tom Thumb is two inches shy of the world record.

MONDAY 6 APRIL

Moira Jones

A convicted sex attacker tells the Moira Jones murder trial that he did not admit to killing the businesswoman in May last year.

Super Puma wreck arrives in Aberdeen

A salvage ship docks at Aberdeen with the remaining eight bodies from a helicopter which crashed in the North Sea killing 16 men.

Ninewells Hospital

A 16-year-old girl has seriously injured her arm after falling through a skylight while jumping over roof tops in St Andrews in Fife.



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